Eastern District of the United States District Court of Kentucky : records, 1795-1801.

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Eastern District of the United States District Court of Kentucky : records, 1795-1801.

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Records include memorandum book and an order book. The memorandum book was kept by Thomas Tunstall, clerk of the U.S. District Court of Kentucky for the July 1799 term through the Mar. 1801 term, and contains a record of certain cases before the court with instructions from the attorneys in the cases. Included are instructions from William Clarke, U.S. attorney for the District of Kentucky; instructions from James Morrison, supervisor of revenues for the Ohio District, in cases brought by him against Ky. distillers for taxes to the U.S. government; and instructions from other attorneys who practiced before the court, including Joseph Hamilton Daveiss, Thomas Todd, James Hughes, Henry Clay, Isham Talbott, James Brown, John Allen, James Blair, and others. The following cases are among those recorded: Robert Morris v. George Rogers Clark and Mark Mitchell v. Daniel Boone et al. The order book, 1799-1801, contains orders for rules adopted by the judges of the sixth circuit in the U.S. to regulate proceedings of the Circuit Court within the District of Kentucky, and is signed by judges Harry Innes, John McNairy, and William McClung, 15 May 1801; additional orders adopted in the May and Nov. terms, 1801; and reports of cases before the court, 1795, 1798-1800.

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Clay, Henry, 1777-1852

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Henry Clay Sr. (April 12, 1777 – June 29, 1852) was an American attorney and statesman who represented Kentucky in both the Senate and House. He was the seventh House speaker and the ninth secretary of state. He received electoral votes for president in the 1824, 1832, and 1844 presidential elections. He also helped found both the National Republican Party and the Whig Party. For his role in defusing sectional crises, he earned the appellation of the "Great Compromiser" and was part of the "Grea...

McNairy, John, 1762-1837

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Morrison, James, 1755-1823

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Biographical note: James Morrison, a native of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, served as an officer during the Revolutionary War and subsequently as a sheriff of Cumberland County prior to coming to Lexington, Kentucky in 1792. Having entered into business here as a merchant, he was appointed land commissioner by Isaac Shelby, and in 1797 represented Fayette County in the Kentucky legislature. Thereafter, he served as navy agent and as deputy quartermaster general during the War of...

Hughes, James, d. 1822.

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Daviess, Joseph Hamilton, 1774-1811.

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Kentucky lawyer and soldier. From the description of Joseph Hamilton Daviess : papers, 1780-1856. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49241698 ...

Brown, James, 1766-1835

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James Brown was U.S. District Attorney in Kentucky, 1791; Secretary of State of Kentucky, 1792-1796; Secretary of Orleans Territory, 1804; U.S. District Attorney in Orleans Territory, 1805-1808; U.S. Senator from Louisiana, 1813-1817, 1819-1823; and U.S. Minister to France, 1823-1829. From the description of James Brown letter, 1829 Mar. 31. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 76285477 From the description of James Brown letter, 1824 Dec. 25. (Louisiana State U...

Allen, John, 1749-1816.

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Tunstall, Thomas Nelson.

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United States. District Court (Kentucky : Eastern District)

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Clark, George Rogers, 1752-1818

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Surveyor; noted Indian fighter in the American midwest in the latter half of the 18th century. From the description of Documents, 1778-1818. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 28287330 American Revolutionary Colonel in the Old Northwest. Clark first came to Detroit from Cleveland in 1817, and was followed by his parents in a commercial fisherman and deputy collector of customs in China, Mich. (from M.P.C., I, 501-507: Clark's "Recollections".) (blue ...

Clarke, William, 1760-1802.

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Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820

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Daniel Boone (1734-1820) was a pioneer land settler, Indian fighter and he served in military and political positions in Kentucky. At the time this letter was written, he was on the verge of losing his many tracts of land because the titles were improperly entered. From the description of Letter : to Charles Yanc[e]y, Luecy [i.e. Louisa] County, 1785 May 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122602570 Indian fighter and scout. From the description of Daniel Boone pa...

Innes, Harry, 1752-1816

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Harry Innes was involved, at the time this letter was written, in what is now termed the Spanish Conspiracy. The conspiracy involved Kentucky petitioning to become an independent state and then entering into an alliance with Spain. This would be benificial to Kentucky economically while protecting Spain's valuable colony, Mexico. This alliance plan failed after the defeat of the Jay-Gardoqui Treaty. The treaty would have forbidden United States navigation of the Mississippi River for twenty-five...

McClung, William A.

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